photo by Samantha Stidham

What is Recovery Panes?

Recovery Panes is a multi-phase community project involving those who have been impacted by addiction. Participants created a small encaustic painting representative of their personal experience, strength and hope. The complex elements of encaustic wax uniquely allowed a symbolic and cathartic exploration of their experiences. Participants also shared a short, written response to the process which is paired with their art in an accompanying catalogue



All individual paintings are joined to form a larger work, framed and presented to resemble large windows with each painting representing a single windowpane. The art is interactive- the individual panels are mounted on magnets, allowing the viewers to rearrange the paintings, symbolizing our need to change our perspective and move towards de-stigmatizing addiction.

Both the Recovery Panes and the accompanying catalogue will be shown at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts through March of 2012.

A reception will be held on Thursday, February 2nd, 5pm-9pm, to celebrate both Recovery Panes and 'Come to Your Senses', a showcase of encaustic paintings by local artists

Monday, October 29, 2012

Time to dust off the Project?

Recovery Panes has shown all over town in some pretty visible venues in the last few years, including Portland City Hall, Portland Center for the Performing Arts and Portland City Club to name a few.  Having gone through a major move in the last year, it has been packed up and stored in a very generous friends barn for the last 6 months.. Thanks Kym!!

Today I applied to have it installed in the Portland Building and am looking to possible find a more permanent place for it to be viewed and interacted with.. Possibly a hospital or something of the sort.  Keep your eyes out and let me know if you know of a great home for the Recovery Panes Healing Project to help even more people!! 
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